AS THE GOVERNMENT dig deep to find a further €10bn to bail out Anglo, Twitter is aflurry with the many things we could have done for the current cost of the bailout (€25bn). We’ve decided to bring you our top 20 in no particular order. You can follow the #Anglo100 debate on Twitter.

@boucherhayes A 99 cone with flake for every man woman and child in the country every day for the next eight and half years
@timdod Large Hadron collider cost 15b. The london olympics will cost e12b. Anglo now at 24b…. #anglo
@boucherhayes Cervical cancer vaccines for the next 8333 years
@karlypants: Ireland could have started its own space program and launched 19 shuttles. ($1.3b per launch http://bit.ly/cnW2w6)
@HartnettRob For the cost of one #anglo100 we could buy most of the Disney Corporation. Govt economic policy = wishing upon a star anyway.
@decjordan #anglo100 we could cover the cost of the Haitian earthquake – twice.
@boucherhayes Pay for the storage of the e-voting machines for another 136, 612 years
@decjordan #anglo100 we could buy a new laptop every year for every secondary school student for 147 years.
@timod We could buy Sony (market cap of $31bn today ~ €23.5bn)
@GSheehy A Bugatti Veyron for every single person in Clonmel #anglo100
@RealBLenihan: We could pay for Irish Senators mobile phones for 749,711 year
@jakedublin1971 #anglo100. 50 aviva arenas
@Sliother #anglo100 We could buy 266 Christiano Ronaldos.
@RealBLenihan We could pay the gym membership fees for AIB staff for 2777 years
@BatesDarren We could’ve created about 30 luas lines
@Ronanlyons: Wexford-Pembrokeshire Channel Tunnel would cost about €25bn
@dabarbarian #anglo100 we could have made Avatar 100 times which quadrupled it’s cost at the box office
@hidaire A pint for everyone in the country, each day, for four years.
@shabouwcaw 200,000 Italian White Truffles – Most expensive food in the World http://bit.ly/1KMAiC
@jakedublin1971 #anglo100. Over 31 million nights with Peter crouch’s hooker

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20 things we could've spent the Anglo bailout money on

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